UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 2017 HUSKY FOOTBALL web: www.gohuskies.com • twitter: @UW_Football Contacts: Jeff Bechthold & Brian Tom • emails: [email protected] & [email protected] 2017 HUSKY SCHEDULE / RESULTS #7/6 WASHINGTON at COLORADO Sept. 1 at Rutgers (FS1) W, 30-14 Pac-12 Play Opens With Rematch of 2016 Title Game Sept. 9 MONTANA (Pac-12) W, 63-7 Sept. 16 FRESNO STATE (Pac-12) W, 48-16 THE GAME: The Washington football team (3-0) begins Pac-12 Conference play where it left off Sept. 23 at Colorado* (FS1) 7:00 p.m. last year as the Huskies travel to Boulder to face Colorado (3-0) in a rematch of the 2016 conference Sept. 30 at Oregon State* (Pac-12) 5:00 p.m. championship game. The Huskies enter the game, which will kick off at 8:00 p.m. MT/7:00 p.m. PT Oct. 7 CALIFORNIA* TBD and air on FOX Sports 1, ranked No. 7 in the latest AP Top 25 and No. 6 the USA Today coaches’ Oct. 14 at Arizona State* TBD poll. Colorado is unranked, but receiving votes in both. Last Dec. in Santa Clara, the Huskies beat Oct. 28 UCLA* TBD the Buffaloes, 41-10, in the title game, in the teams’ only meeting of 2016. Following this Saturday’s Nov. 4 OREGON* TBD game in Boulder, the Huskies head to Oregon State Sept. 30 (5:00 p.m., Pac-12 Network). Nov. 10 at Stanford* (FS1) 7:30 p.m. QUICK SLANTS: Washington’s Dante Pettis has opened the season with a punt return for a Nov. 18 UTAH* TBD touchdown in each of the UW’s three games: 61 yards at Rutgers, 67 yards vs. Montana and 77 Nov. 25 WASHINGTON STATE* TBD yards vs. Fresno State ... with 8 career TDs on punt returns, he’s tied the NCAA record, shared all times are Pacific by Wes Welker (Texas Tech) and Antonio Perkins (Oklahoma) while also tying the NCAA mark for rankings are AP at time of game consecutive games with a punt return TD (David Allen, Kansas State, 1998; Ryan Switzer, North Carolina, 2013) ... in the Fresno State win, he also caught three TD passes and threw a 39-yard 2017 PAC-12 STANDINGS pass ... Keishawn Bierria led the nation in fumble recoveries last year, with five ... he recovered one against Montana, giving him seven for his career, one shy of the UW career record ... tailback NORTH Pac-12 Overall Myles Gaskin scored his 27th career rushing touchdown vs. Fresno State, placing him eighth on the UW list ... three games into his junior season, Jake Browning currently sits fourth on the UW 1. Washington State 1-0 3-0 career passing yards (7,183) and career completions (534) charts ... his 67 career TD passes remain 2. California 0-0 3-0 second on the list, behind Keith Price’s 75 ... seven true freshmen have seen action for the UW Oregon 0-0 3-0 so far this year: TE Hunter Bryant, TE Jacob Kizer, WR Ty Jones, TB Salvon Ahmed and DBs Keith Washington 0-0 3-0 Taylor, Brandon McKinney and Elijah Molden ... UW entered the year with 32 players on the roster 5. Oregon State 0-1 1-2 who had started at least one game ... four more (LB Ben Burr-Kirven and DBs Jordan Miller, Myles Stanford 0-1 1-2 Bryant and Murphy) earned their first starts at Rutgers, while two more (WR Jordan Chin and TE Hunter Bryant) started vs. Fresno State, meaning that 38 different Huskies have started a game ... SOUTH Pac-12 Overall the UW has won seven straight “true” road games (not counting neutral sites). 1. USC 1-0 3-0 2. Colorado 0-0 3-0 TELEVISION: The Washington-Colorado game will air live to a national audience on FOX Sports Utah 0-0 3-0 1 television with Tim Brando (play-by-play), Spencer Tillman (color) and Holly Sonders (sidelines) providing the commentary. Arizona 0-0 2-1 UCLA 0-0 2-1 RADIO: The Washington IMG College Network, with its flagship station KOMO AM-1000 and FM- Arizona State 0-0 1-2 97.7, will carry the live broadcast of every football game on 17 Northwest radio stations. Longtime play-by-play man Bob Rondeau and color analyst Damon Huard are joined by sideline reporter THIS WEEK’S PAC-12 GAMES Elise Woodward. The home broadcast of the game will also air on Sirius (83) and XM (83) satellite Fri.: Utah at Arizona, 7:30 p.m. (FS1) radio. Westwood One (Ted Emrich, Derek Rackley) will also air a national, syndicated broadcast. USC at California, 12:30 p.m. (ABC/ESPN/ESPN2) Nevada at Washington State, 3 p.m. (Pac-12) #7/6 WASHINGTON at COLORADO Washington at Colorado, 7 p.m. (FS1) Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017 • 7:00 p.m. PT / 8:00 P.M. MT Oregon at Arizona State, 7 p.m. (Pac-12) Radio: KOMO AM-1000/FM-97.7 and the Washington IMG College Network; UCLA at Stanford, 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Sirius 83; XM 83 Television: FOX Sports 1 Media Schedule for the Week: NEXT WEEK’S PAC-12 GAMES Monday: Press conference, 11:30 a.m. Wednesday: Interviews: 11:45 a.m. (offensive Fri.: USC at Washington State, 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Founder’s Club coaches & player interviews after) Arizona State at Stanford Tuesday: Interviews: 11:45 a.m. (defensive Thursday: Coach Petersen in old team room Colorado at UCLA coaches & player interviews after) at approximately 11:55 a.m. Washington at Oregon State Pac-12 Coaches Teleconference Friday: No media availability 10:15 a.m. (Petersen: 11:55 a.m.) California at Oregon * all times approximate. Arrive early! WASHINGTON at COLORADO • FOLSOM FIELD • SEPT. 23, 2017 • 7 P.M. PT / 8 P.M. ET (FS1) THE HEAD COACH: When Chris Petersen was hired after the 2013 season, no one knew for sure how long it might take to return the Husky program to the top levels of the college MEDIA RESOURCES football world. It turns out, it took about three years. In 2016, the Huskies had their best MONDAY PRESS CONFERENCE ON GOHUSKIES.COM: Every Monday, head season since 2000 and one of their best ever, winning the Pac-12 Championship, earning coach Chris Petersen will hold his weekly press conference, starting at 11:30 a.m. PT. a spot in the College Football Playoff and finishing ranked No. 4 in the final polls. They did Fans can watch live on gohuskies.com and watch a replay at gohuskies.com/petersen. it with high-achieving, young players across the starting lineup while also succeeding in the classroom at an unprecedented and sustained rate. Petersen, who built a reputation as PAC-12 TELECONFERENCE: All 12 Pac-12 coaches are available on a weekly an offensive innovator who carried the Boise State football program to its highest highs teleconference each Tuesda.. The call begins at 10:15 a.m. PT and Coach Petersen is and had been courted by innumerable programs, was swayed to take on a new challenge on the call at 11:55 a.m. PT. Contact the Pac-12 office for more info. when he agreed to become head coach of the Huskies in December of 2013. Petersen’s “Built for Life” philosophy, on which the program is based, achieved its highest level of RADIO ON SiriusXM: Most Pac-12 games this season will air on SiriusXM. The home fruition to date with the successes of the team in 2016. Along with those on-field victo- broadcast of the UW-Colorado game will air on Sirius 83 and XM 83. ries, the team continued to achieve at never-before-seen levels academically as the team COACH’S SHOW: The Coach Petersen Show, with Elise Woodward and head coach achieved a 3.09 grade point average (second-highest in recorded history for UW football) Chris Petersen, will air each Monday on KOMO AM-1000 / FM-97.7 at 6:00 p.m.. during the fall academic quarter. Three Huskies earned District 8 Academic All-America and Jake Eldrenkamp was named the Pac-12’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year for football. Along HUSKY SPORTS NETWORK: The following stations make up the 17-station Husky with a 12-2 (8-1 in the Pac-12), the Huskies posted other eye-popping numbers on offense, Sports Network, covering three states: defense and special teams. The Huskies led the nation in turnover margin and were first in the conference and eighth in the nation in both total offense and total defense. The UW led WASHINGTON: the Pac-12 in 17 different team statistical categories. Following the 2016 season, in May Seattle (flagship) KOMO 1000 AM Port Angeles/Sequim KONP 1450 AM of 2017, Petersen was honored with the Stallings Award, awarded annually to a college KOMO 97.7 FM Spokane KOOL 107.1 AM head football coach who is both a humanitarian and an exceptional coach, and named after Aberdeen KWOK 1490 AM Tacoma KOMO 1000 AM former Alabama and Texas A&M head coach Gene Stallings. In 2015, Petersen’s Huskies, Bellingham KPUG 1170 AM Walla Walla KUJ 1420 AM featuring one of the nation’s youngest squads and a schedule ranked by many as the na- Centralia KELA 1430 AM Wenatchee KKRT 900 AM tion’s toughest, rallied for the Dawgs’ sixth consecutive bowl berth, which resulted in a Kelso/Longview KLOG 1490 AM Yakima KUTI 1460 AM victory over Southern Miss in the Heart of Dallas Bowl.